1971.10.29, Genocide, Newspaper (Guardian)
Murders Continue … Even if the centrally promulgated “normalcy” measures were not as limited and partially fraudulent as they are, the power of the police and razakars in villages and towns would undermine and vitiate them. In one area north of Dacca I...
1971.04.12, Articles, Newspaper
THE FIGHT FOR BANGLADESH By Mort Rosenblum Chuadanga, East Pakistan, April 8 (AP) :Along the rusty rails into this breakaway state at war, a grinning old man stands guard armed only with a crude woodcut portrait of the hero pinned his chest. At the border post, a...
1971.10.31, Newspaper (Sunday Times)
Inside Bengal The Terror With Two Faces Strict censorship in East Pakistan makes it almost impossible to learn what is happening there. Smuggling news despatches out of the country is a difficult and dangerous operation. The Sunday Times has obtained the report...
1971.12.19, District (Dhaka), Newspaper (Sunday Times)
Dacca Murders Exposed Bengal’s Elite Dead in a Ditch Before they surrendered at Dacca on Thursday, the Pakistani Army arrested and then shot more than 50 of the city’s surviving intellectuals, scientists and businessmen. It was a closely planned...
1971.12.19, Newspaper (Sunday Times)
P. S… The One About The Bear And The Ambulance Nicholas Tomalin Probably the oddest story was of the bear in the ambulance on the railway bridge. Major Suri, however, had other good ones. For instance, the Pakistani regimental leopards were kept in a cage and...
1971.04.18, Newspaper (Observer)
Bengalis Will Never Forget or Forgive the Happenings Colin Smith the first British newspaperman to reach Dacca since the foreign Press was expelled, reports on his hazardous journey to East Pakistan’s capital : Calcutta, 17 April: Troops from West Pakistan loyal...
1971.05.18, Newspaper (Sunday Times)
Far From The Holocaust Nicholas Tomalin, after seeing the horror of the East Pakistan fighting, visits the spruce modern capital in West Pakistan. He finds a complacent refusal to recognise the tragedy and its social and economic repercussions. General Yahya Khan,...
